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Chapter 5: The People in the Village

The next morning, when the sky was blurry, Li Feng listened to his parents and wanted to get up. Rubbing his confused eyes, he put on this coat and walked out in a daze.

"Mom, why did you get up so early today?" Li Feng looked at the cloth bag that Zhang Lan had packed, with a bicycle in the yard and a basket in the back. Li Feng patted his head, but no, he said it yesterday.

"You kid, you're not very old, and you're not too forgetful, since you get up, wash your face, pick vegetables, and take advantage of the sun before it comes out." Buying vegetables is not early, selling vegetables is the same reason, people will not wait for you to buy vegetables, people eat breakfast on the street in the morning, and buy some vegetables to go home.

"Dad." Yawning, Li Feng patted the well water on his face, cold, shivering, his spirit was shocked, he was sleepy, he looked around, he didn't see Li Shan, and he was still listening to the talk.

"I went to your third uncle's house, didn't you ask about building a house yesterday? Your third uncle happens to be working in the town's construction team now, so he shouldn't be leaving this time, your father will help you ask. Zhang Lan took the basket and cloth bag, and walked towards the vegetable garden as she spoke. I haven't seen it all night, whether it's green peppers, eggplants are bigger, especially spicy seedlings, which are getting thicker and thicker, and some are thicker than thumbs. Li Feng secretly warned himself in his heart that it wasn't the green pepper that was watered more last time, and it was really smack-smacking to see the growth, which was even more prosperous than other people's soil fertilizer.

Zhang Lan's eyes widened at this time, muttering to herself, but she didn't stop in her hand, more than 100 green peppers picked a cloth bag, a few also had sixty or seventy catties, Zhang Lan looked at many small green peppers, and secretly calculated in her heart, if you pick them together, a spicy seedling can have a small pound of chili peppers, secretly smacking her tongue, and her joy is overflowing. This bag of chili peppers was sold, more than 200 yuan, half a year's oil money, the countryside is simple, and the accounts are indeed top-notch.

At this time, Li Feng breathed a sigh of relief, although this spring water has a miraculous effect, but it is not a demon, do a Li Shan said that the production team will be a good chili pepper for more than half a catty, and his own house is only slightly higher than everything.

Without waiting for Li Shan to come back, the mother and mother had already finished picking eggplants and tomatoes, green tomatoes have been very popular in recent years, and they are crisp and sweet and sour at the beginning, especially delicious, Zhang Lan is afraid that there are too many tomatoes, but they can't finish eating them when they are ripe, so they left one or two, and the rest of them were all picked. Nowadays, their own dishes are on the market early, and the price is definitely a lot higher, look at the eggplant, tomatoes add up to less than 100 catties, if the market is good today, four or five hundred yuan is absolutely no problem.

Zhang Lan thought to herself at this time, whether she had more vegetables, and looked at the oil and salt money for a year.

"the kid, Xiaobao, don't be busy, the third child is here." Li Shan's voice sounded in the front yard, Li Feng was stunned, the third uncle came, it seems that he is building a house, and now the construction team does not have much work at this time, and the rural construction is mostly waiting for the autumn harvest, and the turn of spring and summer is the most idle season for the construction team.

This is not Li Shan and Li Qingyi said, Li Qing hurriedly said that he would help contact the construction team, but it was not a phone call, the contractor was worried about not working these days, and he agreed to come down without saying a word, this is not Li Qing came over to ask Li Feng how to cover it. And Li Shan thought about his son to live, and he said that it was not good, which would not lead to the family.

"Come, come, the third uncle of the child will come into the house and sit, and Xiaobao will pour tea." Li Feng said hello to the third uncle, ran into the house, took out the tea leaves, made tea, served the hall, and sat down. Li Qing said that he was Li Feng's third uncle, but he was actually only four or five years old, but look at others, the children are now in the third grade of primary school.

"Your dad told me, let's see when you start work." Li Qing is no stranger to the place in Taolin, and he thought about it in his heart, it is absolutely no problem to build a two-story building on that land, and this is not discussed with the head of the contractor team. But they asked him to take the project as soon as possible, the house over there was completed in two days, and he had a group of more than ten people waiting for dinner.

"This matter, the third uncle will look at it, just do it as soon as possible, I'm not too anxious." Although Li Feng was anxious in his heart, he could still wait for thirty or fifty days, and the matter of building a house was not urgently needed in a short time.

"Okay, Xiaobao, three days later, uncle, I will definitely let you see the bricks and tiles, and the quality is absolutely top." Li Qing is anxious in his heart, his family's fertilizer money has not yet been settled, if the construction team has no work, he can't carry rice, compared to the construction team's wall-building work, it's much easier, and the money is also rich, isn't it?

Li Feng felt that since it could be built quickly, could he not be happy? Li Shan saw that his son really had the intention to live at home, and he became more and more sure when he spoke, and finally Li Feng took 2,000 yuan and paid a deposit, what is the contract agreement, the countryside is not prosperous, look up and don't look down, who spoke and farted today, don't let the whole village still point to the backbone and poke you for a few days.

Sending Li Qing away, Zhang Lan and Li Feng helped Li Shan put the freshly picked vegetables into a basket, and watched Li Shan briskly walk through the potholes and on the road. Li Feng was grumbling with hunger, couldn't wait, ran into the shed and touched two cucumbers, and let Zhang Lan eat Solo, it was too cold to eat cucumbers in the morning.

"It's okay, Mom." Li Feng couldn't manage it so much, grinded two handfuls, and took a big bite, not to mention, it was really a little cold, but this crisp fresh cucumber with a faint green breath was much more delicious than what was bought in the supermarket, Li Feng took advantage of Zhang Lan's cooking stall to sneak into the space and carry half a bucket of water, this time he learned the lesson of the last time, and poured a small half bowl of cucumber, but he didn't dare to pour more. Otherwise, the cucumber suddenly grows so many melons, it is not the time when the new seedlings do not bear fruit, although there are a few of them, they will not attract attention. But after a few cucumbers, there are suddenly too many more, and no one mutters in their hearts.

For breakfast, Zhang Lan put firewood on the shelf, cooked rice porridge, and the vegetables were stuffy beans, and when Li Feng helped his mother burn the pot, he looked at the red and stuffy beans. The saliva is direct, and the stuffy beans are actually just soybeans cooked, unlike soy beans, which are added with flour and waiting for green mold. Stuffed beans, boiled and stuffed directly, add half crushed peanuts, crushed ginger, and red pepper. These are not counted, Li Feng's family is not a simple list, many people use cold white beans, but Zhang Lan uses watermelon juice, beat the watermelon into watermelon juice, add it to the beans, put a little white wine, put it in the jar, and tie it up.

When you eat it in the future, dig a bowl and cook it, you don't need to add anything else, the red pepper in the red sauce tastes sweet and sour, with a hint of spiciness, beans, peanuts, crisp, it's really a good thing to eat.

Li Feng ate two large bowls of rice porridge in the morning, a small half bowl of stuffy beans, Zhang Lan looked at her son's greed, and couldn't help but feel complacent, which mother was unhappy to see that her son liked to eat the food he cooked.

"Mom, don't just look at me, you eat." A few dishes in the morning, Li Feng didn't eat much else, he focused on stuffy beans, eating rice porridge is the most to accompany this dish, and after eating one bowl, he wanted to go to the next bowl.

"Okay, mom eat, Xiaobao, mom asks you something, which, Xiaoying, do you still have contact?" Zhang Lan has been wanting to ask these days, this girl Zhang Lan has seen a few times, she is a good person, not to mention the child's handsomeness, and her character is good. Zhang Lan and Li Shan were very satisfied, but they came to see it in front of their daughter-in-law, but unfortunately Li Feng insisted on going to Beijing a few years ago, and this matter was put down. Now that her son is back, Zhang Lan doesn't know if the two are still in touch.

"Mom, Xiaoying got married last year." Li Feng spoke a little low, for Xiaoying, Li Feng has true feelings, although it has faded a lot over the years, but when he thinks that the girl in his arms has now become someone else's wife, don't say it in his heart. It's really unpredictable, it's really Li Feng who is not right, and he still feels guilty about Xiaoying even now.

"Eat, eat, hehe." Zhang Lan looked at Li Feng's gloomy face, felt sorry for her son, and quickly changed the topic, secretly thinking that in a few days, she would find Mrs. Zhang, find a good girl for her son, and hold a fat grandson by herself, and forget her wish in this life.

After breakfast, Li Feng rarely went into the village to see, he came back for a few days, the mountain village was distributed in the shape of a crescent, Li Feng's house was the most inside, there were more than 100 meters away from the village, Li Feng walked into the village after a while, saying that it was a village, but there were only more than 30 families.

"Second master, you're busy, you're still in good health." Li Erye was fiddling with the vegetable garden in the backyard, the fence door was open, Li Feng walked in with a smile, the old man was over seventy, looking at the second master with white hair and ruddy face, but he was a crane-haired childish face.

"Hehe, little Baozi, your baby is back, the second master has to talk about you, if you don't come back in the past few years, do you know how much your parents miss you." The second master patted the loess in his hand, got up and looked at the most promising one of his grandson's babies. Picking up the grass roots in the bamboo basket, Li Feng hurriedly walked over to help the handle.

"Second master, what you said is, this time, I won't leave when I come back, and I will honor my parents." Li Feng helped to pour the weeds on the stone slab on the side of the road, and the sun would be able to dry the children one day, and when he returned to the yard, the second grandmother smiled and took out the New Year's fruits, pecans, almonds, melon seeds, and tea made from bitter haha grass.

"Second grandmother, look, I'm coming." Li Feng stepped forward to help the second grandmother, the second grandmother's body is more rickety than many second masters, a little rickety, walking trembling, but the face is still loving, touching Li Feng's head, his face is full of love, when he was a child, Li Feng did not make a lot of trouble, the second grandmother's pear, toon leaves, this baby is not less fiddling, as for the melon or something, a bunch of little children, every time they steal, the second mother every time she looks at it and laughs, never scolds, and the little baby is willing to be close.

"Second grandmother, look at it, I'll bring you a Buddha." Li Feng went home and brought some gadgets, a few hundred yuan of Guanyin, the Buddha pendant bought five or six, this Buddha is helping the second mother to beg, the second mother is not in good health, it is suitable for blessing safety, this Li Feng has found someone to open the light.

"You baby, you still remember the second grandmother, the second grandmother is already very happy." The second grandmother took it with a smile, but she was not polite, the child's heart, the second master looked at it, did not speak, and smiled on his face, not because Li Feng did not give him a gift, there was any displeasure in his heart. It was Xing'er, who gave Li Feng the fruit plate one by one.

"Hehe, second master, I'll bring a bottle of good wine in a few days, let's have a good drink. Forget it today, my mom is still waiting for me. Li Feng saw that the second elder was so enthusiastic about staying for himself to eat, he was moved, but helpless, he still had something to do when he went home, and he was still thinking about the seeds that his father bought.

"Okay, the second master can wait to drink your baby's good wine." The second master looked at Li Feng and really had something, and he didn't insist on staying. Li Feng glanced at the village with a wry smile, he originally wanted to go shopping, he was all at the second master's house all morning, come back tomorrow, several of his friends are now married, no matter how you come back, you have to say hello, don't you give a gift.